Honors....details?

mswnola
Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:24:58 +0000

My OOS son was not invited to the Honors program during the Admisssions process, which surprised us, since he was invited at other comparable schools. But he went to UNC anyway, and applied to the Honors program after his first semester and got into it. So don’t worry, or be insulted, if you don’t get invited as an applicant - the Honors committee has their own criteria and are obviously choosing from amongst a very high-achieving group of people. As far as I can tell, the main benefit to being in the Honors program is priority registration for Honors classes. On the other hand, it is somewhat restricting since you are required to take a minimum number of Honors classes, and there is not always a huge selection in every area; the consequence is that many students opt out of Honors in order to fulfill their other requirements.